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Sluices were built at Earith and Denver, and the river carried most of the flow of the River Great Ouse, resulting in its old course via Ely becoming just a drainage channel. The Corporation of the Bedford Level was set up, and took control of the river and the drainage channels, under the terms of the General Drainage Act, passed in 1663. This ...
When levels drop, the washes drain back into the Old Bedford River. [ 4 ] The Environment Agency sets the trigger level for the sluices, allowing higher levels in the Great Ouse in summer than in winter.The enclosed area of washland runs from Earith northeast to Downham Market where it links via the New Bedford River to the tidal Great Ouse and ...
Earith is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] Lying approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of Huntingdon , Earith is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
Nearly 400 years later, floodwaters highlighted the Earith Bulwark after heavy rainfall on Tuesday, a spectacle that was captured in aerial footage shot from above the historic site by Terry ...
The River Great Ouse (/ uː z / ooz) is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse".From Syresham in Northamptonshire, the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wash and the North Sea near Kings Lynn.
Reedy River, near Falls Park and Unity Park reached a peak of 16.19 feet and was classified as a moderate flood stage. Prior to the hurricane, this region of the river sat around 1.1 feet.
Flooding from heavy rain revealed the outline of a 400-year-old English Civil War fortification in the town of Earith in Cambridgeshire, England, on January 18, local media reported.The Earith ...
The Old Bedford River is an artificial, partial diversion of the waters of the River Great Ouse in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England. It was named after the fourth Earl of Bedford who contracted with the local Commission of Sewers to drain the Great Level of the Fens beginning in 1630. It provided a steeper and shorter path for the waters of ...